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Families can enjoy a visit to Santa\u2019s Grotto and there will be fairground attractions, musical performances and a Christmas Variety Market with stalls from local traders.<\/p>\n
Councillor Ross McMullan, Chair of the council\u2019s People and Communities Committee, said: \u201cWe\u2019re delighted to support this fantastic festive event with Colin Neighbourhood Partnership in one of our newly opened parks and community events spaces in the city.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe hope it will bring along local residents as well as attract visitors from across Belfast to see and enjoy the park for the first time – making the most of the early festivities too.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s also good to see parks\u2019 events and activities like this taking place in our parks and open spaces again, following the last few years.\u201d<\/p>\n
John Paul Russell, Arts and Cultural Officer with the Colin Neighbourhood Partnership, added: \u201cIt\u2019s fantastic to see this new park with its state-of-the-art facilities open in Colin. This is such an exciting new development for the Colin area. It will allow us to host our biggest Christmas event to date and we look forward to using it for future events.\u201d<\/p>\n
P\u00e1irc Nua Chollann, opened in October and is located on the Stewartstown Road between Poleglass and Twinbrook. Among its attractions are a 13-metre \u2018Leap of Faith\u2019 sculpture, a new play park with range of accessible and sensory equipment, a cycle \u2018pump track\u2019, marked routes for walking, running and cycling and an outdoor gym.<\/p>\n
The project was funded by The Executive Office\u2019s Urban Villages Initiative and the Department for Communities. It was delivered and will be operated by Council.<\/p>\n
Find out more about P\u00e1irc Nua Chollann and all of the city\u2019s parks and open spaces, at www.belfastcity.gov.uk\/parks<\/a><\/p>\n For more information on festive events taking place in the city, visit www.belfastcity.gov.uk\/christmas<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Newly opened P\u00e1irc Nua Chollann in west Belfast will be transformed into a \u2018Winter Wonderland\u2019 on Thursday 8 December. A free festive event is taking place at the park from 6pm to 9pm organised by Colin Neighbourhood Partnership with support from Belfast City Council. Families can enjoy a visit to Santa\u2019s Grotto and there … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20815"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20815"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20818,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20815\/revisions\/20818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}